Today we celebrate the feast of our Guardian angels. God has given every human person a guardian angel, a messenger from heaven. As a child, I was taught the following prayer: Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side to light, to guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
When I think of my guardian angel, I think of the many times I hear the words: "Watch out." "Do this!" Don't do that." "Good job!" "Try harder." "You can do it!" I also think of the times that I was saved from death, as happened one night out on a dessert road with no lights anywhere around. I car was following me (I had two other passengers in my car). Frustrated that the car being me left its brights on, I let it pass me. A short ways up the road, coming over a small hill, was a car in our lane. We were traveling about 60 miles an hour. There was no way for the driver in front of me to get out of the way. They hit head-on and two women in the car were killed outright. My guardian angel and those of my passengers, I believed, were at work that night!
Other people have told me similar stories of "miracles" that occurred as the result, they believed, of their Guardian Angel protecting them.
Lord, thank you for giving each of us a Guardian Angel. May we be more aware of your generosity and that of our Guardian angels, who are at our sides "to light, to guard, to rule and guide.
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